--- Mark Paulus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >From what I understand, you shouldn't be using _i386 as > your architecture type. This seems to indicate for a unix > kernel. The packages I built under my cygwin > environment were built with a _w32 architecture. I don't > even really like that, because I think we need to differentiate > between native windows type apps, and cygwin dependant > apps, since in my mind they also operate using a different > kernel. > > I guess that's a question for the group. Does cygwin present > enough of an extension to Microsoft windows that is could be > considered and independant "flavour" of a kernel, and thus > require another kernel-type indicator?
Well, this is the problem. I cannot create that using the existing hard coded architecture types in the dpkg and the duplicated hardcoded set in the deb helpers. > what is libiconv-mingw1? Is it a .dll or .exe? If so, then you will > have to > modify the preinst & postinst scripts to account for any windows > specific > extensions, such as .dll & .exe. Painful and tedious, but > necessary. It is in fact just a statically linked lib and a set of datafiles. I dont see why i need to modify them, but i will look. It looks like a permissions error in the dpkg, i dont know where. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Bis zu 100 MB Speicher bei http://premiummail.yahoo.de

